by: Constance Casserly
Grades 6-12
In this 5-page packet, LOVE
NOTES - 6 Activities to show, “I love you,” or “I love you not," Middle and High School students have the
opportunity to explore and reveal their feelings about this holiday as well as
those of characters from their required
and independent reading.
In the activity, A
Character Love Song, students choose any character from a story that they
are currently studying or that they have read in class this school year and create lyrics for a Valentine’s Day love song from the point
of view of this person that he/she writes to another character in the
story.
For the next activity, Is
Valentine’s Day a Save or a Delete?, students are to pretend that voters
will choose whether this day should be kept on the state calendar or deleted. They
must write a persuasive opinion piece for the school and/or the local newspaper
where they present and support their opinion on the topic.
The final activity, A
Quartet of Valentine’s Day Warm-Ups, presents four Valentine’s Day-related
Warm-Up topics. One concerns story characters and a box of assorted chocolates,
the second one has students creating a perfect romantic partner relationship,
the third topic asks students to choose two characters from the same story
where each one shares opposite feelings about Valentine’s Day, and in the fourth
Warm-Up, students use their Perfect Pair from Topic # 2 for a social media
writing.
Teachers, choose only one activity, or all six- A Character Love Song, Is Valentine’s Day a Save or a Delete? and
each of the four ideas in A Quartet of
Valentine’s Day Warm-Ups – whatever fits your agendas and needs to keep
students hooked on their academic objectives as Valentine’s Day approaches.
Download this offering from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LOVE-NOTES-6-Activities-to-show-I-love-you-or-I-love-you-not-1667231. $
A detailed page of Teacher Notes is included.
For two more Valentine's Day packets, check out
Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make Me a Match
and
Valentine's Day Comprehension Activity: You Sent What??? Cards
Happy Teaching,
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